Possible Computer Virus-Trojan Issue

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Possible Computer Virus-Trojan Issue

Postby FrankoSport » Mon 11 Apr, 2011 5:10 pm

Greetings ....

Issue Began ... Monday 4/11/2011 around 3:00 PM ET (USA)

Description .... Whenever using any of three web-browsers (Firefox, Opera, MS-IE) on my laptop, AVAST alerts me of a threat regardless of what I click onto. In each case, AVAST identifies the running process as the specific browser in use.

A quick scan with AVAST was done, which singled out some html and htm files. I deleted those because I had backups. However, the AVAST alerts continue with web-browsing.

There have been no AVAST alerts when using non web-browsing apps.

A search of this issue on the internet indicates that I may have picked up something which triggers false alerts to AVAST. If this is so, and if AVAST can't find it, what is a good solution?

Thanx-A-Lot, Frank-0-Sport
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Re: Possible Computer Virus-Trojan Issue

Postby Antony » Mon 11 Apr, 2011 8:12 pm

Have you tried re-installing AVAST?
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Re: Possible Computer Virus-Trojan Issue

Postby FrankoSport » Mon 11 Apr, 2011 8:54 pm

Greetings ....

Turned out to be a bad definitions update by Avast. They issued corrections within the hour, and now everything's running OK again.

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